Carl Laemmle Producer Award

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The Carl Laemmle Producer Award is awarded by the Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television together with Carl Laemmle's native city of Laupheim and is the first independent German producer award annually to honor the life's work of an outstanding producer personality and at the same time generally represents “the special performance of the producers in the creative and economic process of filmmaking in a special way ”. The award is endowed with 40,000 euros. The award ceremony takes place in Laupheim, the birth town of Carl Laemmle, every year in mid-March during the founding week of Universal City Studios (March 15, 1915). Dieter Kosslick has been the chairman of the jury since 2019.

Excellent producer personalities

At the start in 2017, Roland Emmerich was awarded the first Carl Laemmle Producer Award, followed in the second year by Regina Ziegler . In the same year Artur Brauner was honored on the occasion of his 100th birthday with the special prize of the jury - the Carl Laemmle Prize of Honor. In 2019 Stefan Arndt was awarded the Carl Laemmle Producer Award for his life's work to date.

Namesake Carl Laemmle

Carl Laemmle, 1918

On the occasion of the 150th birthday of the great film pioneer Carl Laemmle in 2017, the Carl Laemmle Producer Award was launched by the Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television , with around 270 member companies the leading producer association in Germany, together with Carl Laemmle's hometown of Laupheim . Carl Laemmle is one of the most successful and innovative film producers of his time. With the opening of Universal Studios in a previously inanimate area of ​​Los Angeles on March 15, 1915, he founded the largest and most important film metropolis in the world: Hollywood . He wrote film history with his productions and shaped the image of the creative and entrepreneurial producer with his life's work. He remained closely connected to his native town of Laupheim throughout his life.

trophy

The “Laemmle” sculpture, which will be presented at the award ceremony, represents a stylized lamb and is manufactured by the State Majolica Manufactory Karlsruhe .

literature

  • Christoph E. Palmer (Ed.): Carl Laemmle. Life - work - price. Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television eV, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-9816027-6-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the Carl Laemmle Producer Award. Accessed December 11, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ About us. Accessed April 10, 2019 (German).